Archive for the ‘Email’ Category

Phishing warning

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

We are seeing more reports from customers about "phishing" emails. These are attempts to steal personal information by misleading you into replying with sensitive personal or banking data. One type of message claims to be from Sonic.net itself, and says something along the lines of: > We are currently carrying-out a maintenance ...

Opinions on personalized email domains?

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

I'm interested in feedback on a concept. We are researching the idea of offering personalized surname based email and web addresses. This would mean that a customer could select an email address like firstname@lastname.com, and an optional web address of firstname.lastname.com for example. Each would forward to a customer's usual mailbox ...

IMAP – what’s that?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Late in 2007, we quietly rolled out access to IMAP, a powerful email access protocol that our customers can use to manage their email. Email is the Internet's killer application. While the web is essential, it's email that most folks use first, every day. Most Internet users either use ...